Charles-Louis Loys de Cheseaux
Born22 March 1730 Edit this on Wikidata
Lausanne Edit this on Wikidata
Died29 August 1789 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 59)
Lausanne Edit this on Wikidata
FamilyJean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux Edit this on Wikidata
First page of the Abrégé chronologique pour servir a l'histoire de la physique jusqu'a nos jours, 1786

Charles-Louis Loys de Cheseaux (1730 – 1789) was a Swiss historian.[1]

Life

Born in Lausanne, he was a member of Bern's economic society.[2]

Among his works is a history of physics in two volumes. Some of his works were translated in various languages in Europe.[2][3]

Works

  • Discours philosophique sur la physique et l'histoire naturelle (in French). Lausanne: Antoine Chapuis. 1762.
  • Discorso filosofico sulla fisica e storia naturale (in Italian). Tübingen: Stamperia Reissiana. 1777.
  • Abrégé chronologique pour servir a l'histoire de la physique jusqu'a nos jours (in French). Vol. 1. Strasbourg: P. J. Dannbach. 1786.
  • Abrégé chronologique pour servir a l'histoire de la physique jusqu'a nos jours (in French). Vol. 2. Strasbourg: P. J. Dannbach. 1787.
  • Abrégé chronologique pour servir a l'histoire de la physique jusqu'a nos jours (in French). Vol. 3. Strasbourg: P. J. Dannbach. 1789.
  • Abrégé chronologique pour servir a l'histoire de la physique jusqu'a nos jours (in French). Vol. 4. Strasbourg: P. J. Dannbach. 1789.
  • Loys, Charles de (1798). Chronologische Geschichte der Naturlehre (in German). Leipzig.

References

  1. ↑ Charles-Louis Loys de Cheseaux in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  2. 1 2 Charles de Loys de Cheseaux (1777). Discorso filosofico sulla fisica e storia naturale (in Italian). Tübingen: Stamperia Reissiana.
  3. ↑ Charles de Loys (1798). Chronologische Geschichte der Naturlehre (in German). Leipzig.

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